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Wonder if this means Terry Davis gets to live on HN? It will be interesting to see how this system handles "controversial" user accounts.

• dang 11y ago
  "Gets to live"? That wording gives me the willies. But if you see substantive (e.g. on-topic technical) comments that are [dead], you should definitely vouch for them.
  • Semiapies 11y ago
    Is it really any creepier than using "dead" for comments not being visible by default?
    • dang 11y ago
      I'd say very much so. One refers to a comment, another to a person.
• lotharbot 11y ago
  Given that "vouch" still goes through the manual process (it doesn't auto-revive hellbanned accounts, but instead flags them for the moderators to review) I think the most likely outcome is that a few more of Terry's comments will be made visible, but his account as a whole will still be restricted. After all, the moderators are well aware of who Terry is and his general patterns of behavior on his various accounts, but they might not always notice when he makes a comment that deserves to be revived.